But you wouldn’t know it from looking at her website or the flyer circulated out Sunday where Bass claims she has the T-S endorsement. And so continues the Bass campaign to mislead voters. Here’s what the T-S actually said:

We’re not convinced that Bass has hit the books hard enough in the months since the primary to gain our support. Bass still seems under-studied, and even unwilling to take a stand on something as critical as which option of the general plan update she supports and why.

Bass admits her failure to do her homework, which Neely notes in recent advertising.

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Perhaps this is another issue she has not done her homework on. Is she thinking it is too late in the game to be called on such a blatant lie?

anon

November 1, 2010 at 10:30 am

keep dreaming. Bass by 25%. Neely’s lurch to the left may play well in Arcata, but not in the conservative 4th dist. Dumbest political move ever.

Living In Eureka

November 1, 2010 at 10:31 am

Bass was not endorsed by TS. It is an out right lie. She has not educated herself regarding the problems of our county or state. If she is uneducated & lying now, what is it going to be like if she wins the election???
Either you are qualified to do the job or you’re not & she’s not. Caught in a big one this time Bass!

I’m tired of the half truths, out & out lies, back room deals, & the down right stupid people running our city into the ground. Bass is a liar ( TS did not endorse you), Brady is a one trick pony( every problem we have will be solved with the Marina Center), Newman is as stupid as Bass (did not know what the P.O.P. team was)! Vote Tomorrow, your voice is needed!

humboldturtle

November 1, 2010 at 10:33 am

The way for Eureka to lose power on the board is to elect Bass, who knows nothing and will be of no use to the community on the board. Oh, is that too harsh?

anon

November 1, 2010 at 10:56 am

Neely is being thrown out with the other liberal trash this election. There will be a Marina center and jobs instead of a toxic waste site and no jobs. Get used to it.

Reality Check

November 1, 2010 at 10:58 am

What a sleazy attempt at fooling the voters! Matthew Owen should be embarassed for the way he has attempted to wrangle these elections-not only will he lose this election for his candidates, but he has tarnished all of their reputations in the process. His first mailer-Democrats support Bass, Brady, Newman-and now this blatant lie that Bass is endorsed by the TS. Guess what-the Democrats didn’t endorse these candidates, and neither did the Times-Standard! Shame on you Matthew Owen!

Sam Crow

November 1, 2010 at 12:25 pm

Matthew been getting away with it since Virginia was elected mayor why would he stop? Spreading lies about his opponents and just making shit up. Like Virginia saying she supports equality in marriage when they had a big yes on eight sign in they’re yard. He follows his hero Karl Rove.

High Finance

November 1, 2010 at 3:00 pm

Oh bullshit. It is not a “lie”. Just use your heads & stop drinking the Bonnie Neely & Heraldo kool aide. WHAT CONCEIVABLE PURPOSE WOULD A LIE HERE BENEFIT WHEN A LIE WOULD BE CAUGHT IMMEDIATELY???? THE INSERT WAS IN THE TIMES STANDARD ITSELF!!!!!

Any honest person with an IQ over room temperture would recognize this as only a mistake.

Goldie

November 1, 2010 at 3:09 pm

Yes, that is it! Yes! A mistake. That’s all. It’s just them not knowing they did not have the endorsement of the Times-Standard.
Just because it could be so easily caught as a ‘mistake’ makes it ok. It’s not like they were trying to squeeze every last vote from that room temperature IQ bunch you mentioned.
Nice try.

High Finance

November 1, 2010 at 3:17 pm

Which test did you fail Goldie? The IQ test or the honesty test?

Matt

November 1, 2010 at 3:19 pm

I don’t want to vote someone in as supervisor that makes such basic mistakes.

Plain Jane

November 1, 2010 at 3:20 pm

How could that be a mistake? Did they just assume T-S would endorse her and send the fliers out before they knew for sure? Did the T-S tell her they were endorsing her and then endorsed Neely? Did they misinterpret the Neely endorsement as a Bass endorsement? At the least it demonstrates incompetence on the part of her staff and raises questions about her judgment. What it appears to be is a case of lying to people who don’t read the editorials but might read a campaign flier. They probably still don’t know that the T-S endorsed Neely and why.

Matt

November 1, 2010 at 3:23 pm

Honestly, making a mistake on basic facts like that is almost worse than it being a blatant attempt to mislead. At least if she’s trying to trick people, it shows a certain thought process. This being a mistake shows no thought process at all.

Reality Check

November 1, 2010 at 3:25 pm

Oh, honesty! Hi-Fi, you define hypocrisy! Your candidate has lied her way through this whole election, and now she has been caught! Mistake my ass! A lie, a lie, a lie! She knew she didn’t get the endorsement, and she still put it on every mailer, flyer, and on her website! You decide Hi-Fi, dumber than dog shit, or liar-she wears both titles so very well! What a great group of people you surround yourself with-pathetic! Look forward to your world crumbling tomorrow when your candidates can’t buy their way into office with more money or lies!

Living In Eureka

November 1, 2010 at 3:27 pm

Hifi; Either she was endorsed or she wasn’t! Mistake? I think not! Either she can’t read – so she’s stupid OR she lied! I don’t want a dishonest Supervisor nor do I want an idiot. So either way, she missed the boat big time!

Goldie

November 1, 2010 at 3:42 pm

High Finance says:
November 1, 2010 at 3:17 pm

Which test did you fail Goldie? The IQ test or the honesty test?

Why do you ask HiFi? Did you get my flier saying I was endorsed by the Times-Standard?

Neelyout

November 1, 2010 at 3:51 pm

Has Neely had one ad where she didn’t attack Virginia and just point out Bonnie’s own merits? Nope. Not one.

Mitch

November 1, 2010 at 3:54 pm

You need only look at old Humboldt Herald links to see ads exactly like what you say don’t exist. The one I recall featured Neely’s family saying nice things about her.

Bunny

November 1, 2010 at 3:59 pm

Lights on, nobody’s home. You should have all voted for Leonard!

Sam Spade

November 1, 2010 at 4:18 pm

HiFi, What a tool! “…only a mistake.” Stay tuned, many, many more to come. I’m laughing oh how I’m laughing. Americans deserved the economy they voted for in George Bush which he delivered. If Eureka becomes Hooked on Palin-Bass”, they deserve the strip mall she and Rob Junior deliver. Idiocracy: The Empire Continues (To Crumble)

A-Nony-Mouse

November 1, 2010 at 4:36 pm

Bass has sent out THREE mailers, at least, listing the TS endorsement. She plans to have one in TOMORROW’S TS. When Brady listed a similar ‘mistaken’ endorsement, it was fronnt page news. Now the TS plans to squash the story, no plans to put in print.
We should all call Mr. Dave Kuta, Publisher of the TS, and ask him to run the story (I did). It protects his paper’s good name and exposes an obvious attempt to mislead voters. That sounds like a story to me. His phone number is 441-0584.
You can leave a message. Tell him just how worthless any Times Standard endorsement becomes if he won’t print this story.
Just like Bass’ mailers trying to look like she’s endorsed by the Dem Central Committee when she’s NOT. It’s another lie and another attempt to mislead the voters. We must demand better from our elected representatives. Call Mr. Kuta now. 441-0584

A-Nony-Mouse

November 1, 2010 at 4:48 pm

I must correct my last post. It was Allison Jackson who claimed incorrect endorsements, not Brady. Too many names and too many issues! The TS jumped all over Jackson with a front page story. Now they’re planning to simply ‘not mention’ the same misleading behavior from the Bass camp. Check the last mailer you got to see if it’s true. It’s true!!!
Now call and complain. It’s the only way to hold candidates and the newspaper accountable.
Dave Kuta 441-0584 CALL!!

A-Nony-Mouse

November 1, 2010 at 4:52 pm

According to Mr. Kuta, we should ” look in tomorrow’s paper”. Hopefully that means there will be a story about these incidents. Thanks, Dave!

It’s The Big Lie. Tell it often enough in enough places and it becomes…Truthiness. And totally disgusting. She gives waitresses a bad name.

tra

November 1, 2010 at 6:18 pm

So for those keeping score, it’s Allison Jackson with TWO fake endorsements, and Virginia Bass in second place with ONE fake endorsement. All the other candidates are in a distant third place, with ZERO.

And just like the Jackson fake endorsements, Bass’s fake T-S endorsement was either a case of intentionally misleading the public, or a case of misleading the public due to incompetence. Either way, the public ends up being mislead.

Anonymous

November 1, 2010 at 6:52 pm

I looked on Virginia’s website and did not find this endorsement listed.

I look forward to seeing how the T-S handles it. When Allison Jackson was caught lying about an endorsement, the T-S covered it. One would think they would have something to say about being falsely used by the Bass campaign. If they don’t and she wins, it would cast a shadow over the paper’s future coverage of her.

High Finance

November 1, 2010 at 7:51 pm

I don’t think most of you are as dumb as you act.

Honesty is the problem with you people.

Mitch

November 1, 2010 at 7:54 pm

“Honesty is the problem with you people.”

Out of the mouths of babes, HiFi, out of the mouths of babes.

Anonymous

November 1, 2010 at 8:00 pm

‘Twas the night before elections
And all through the town
Tempers were flaring
Emotions all up and down!
I, in my bathrobe
With a cat in my lap
Had cut off the TV
Tired of political crap.
When all of a sudden
There arose such a noise
I peered out of my window
Saw Obama and his boys.
They had come for my wallet
They wanted my pay
To give to the others
Who had not worked a day!
He snatched up my money
And quick as a wink
Jumped back on his bandwagon
As I gagged from the stink.
He then rallied his henchmen
Who were pulling his cart
I could tell they were out
To tear my country apart!
‘On Fannie, on Freddie,
On Biden and Ayers!
On Acorn, On Pelosi’
He screamed at the pairs!
They took off for his cause
And as he flew out of sight
I heard him laugh at the nation
Who wouldn’t stand up and fight!
So I leave you to think
On this one final note-
IF YOU DONT WANT SOCIALISM
GET OUT AND VOTE!

Hifi, how is it not a lie? The TS did not support her. Why is that not clear to you? So you compound the lie with your own LIE. Two wrongs make a right, is that your warped logic?

The Monitor

November 1, 2010 at 10:02 pm

I’d like to jump on the TS for their front page today. An expensive front page color ad for Brady was at the bottom of the page. And what was at the top? At the top was a photo of Marian Brady at the Brown rally. What the hell is that about? It looks like an editorial endorsement to me. There were any number of candidates there and who does the TS pick for the above the fold picture? Does that nullify their endorsement of Glass? Will the real TS please stand up.

mresquan

November 1, 2010 at 10:06 pm

Hifi is certainly no Mark Matteoli.

Anonymous

November 1, 2010 at 10:38 pm

Anonymous 9:21, Hi Fi is Tom Stewart,the one from from every city council meeting, am I right am I right?

insider

November 1, 2010 at 10:43 pm

no not Tom Stewart although he as big a wing-nut!

Heidi

November 1, 2010 at 10:48 pm

I thought the Marian Brady shot was hysterical. It just goes to show how disingenuous local wannabes can really be. If you were a real conservative voter, the real deal, what would you think when you opened your morning paper and saw your candidate smiling at you with a Jerry Brown Button. You’d Spit your Starbucks!

It would be like Larry Glass kissing up to Meg Whitman and all her followers for votes. Difference is; Glass would never go there!!! No disguise folks, no disguise. I want to know what I’m getting!

Billy Bob

November 2, 2010 at 5:56 am

Look at the TS kissing Virginia’s but this morning, it’s all a big mistake…..right, just like brady’s picture at the Jerry Brown rally.
The curant publisher is such a chamber groupie!

anon

November 2, 2010 at 6:12 am

is this all you got? Hey what happened to the Bass residency issue? Oh ya right, turned out she lives in the 4th and there are questions about Neely living in the 4th now.

So you’re predicting that 98 people are going to vote in this election Hi-Fi? Boy, are you going to be WAY off!

Unfortunately elections seem to have nothing to do with integrity, intelligence or qualifications. Popularity contests…what a way to run a country.

Anonymous

November 2, 2010 at 7:01 am

Bass’ excuse: You didn’t return my call so I figured you must have endorsed me. In her mind, no reply is the same as an endorsement.
Wow – we have this look forward to for four years… “sorry Humboldt County, the feds didn’t get back to me, so I assumed we got the millions of dollars in local grants”

anon

November 2, 2010 at 7:02 am

” I agree with Osborne, Bass 56 – Neely 42″

Way too low, Neely is so disliked in the 4th it will be higher. She completely blew it by thinking people with homes and children are no different than plaza floaters and welfare rats. Take a look at the voting demos in the 4th. The over-the-fence talk here in the 4th is blistering anger and disgust. In the Coast Guard housing unit there was a major door to door effort yesterday by moms. Lets just say her love of getting marijuana in front of as many children as possible didn’t play well. Bass 65 Neely 35.

anon

November 2, 2010 at 7:52 am

HiFi, please, I’d like to see a little honesty from you. You have maligned everyone who says Virginia ia nice but lacking the smarts to do the job. She doesn’t do her homework, can’t give specifics on most issues. What do you see about her that qualifies her to do this job, where she will have a bigger paycheck than most Eurekans. And please don’t say, well she’s not Neely. Voters without a brain will oust incumbents all over the country today just because they are incumbents. Voters with a brain will at least put some thought into the alternative candidate and have reasons for their vote. I’d like to hear yours for Virginia.

Neelyout

November 2, 2010 at 7:53 am

How come nobody is making a big thing out of Bonnie not having the AFSME endorsement, but it still on her website? That would be a lie would it not?

Anonymous

November 2, 2010 at 7:58 am

Well, Richard…Bonnie was the last person to get that endorsement, and either way you can’t fix stoopid.

Plain Jane

November 2, 2010 at 8:00 am

Do you have any evidence that they didn’t, Neelyout? The T-S reports that they did.

Anonymous

November 2, 2010 at 8:27 am

Are the Marina Center footsoldiers out in full force yet?

Same old sweatshirts from last time, or did they receive new wears?

Anonymous

November 2, 2010 at 8:49 am

Anon 7:02,
If you think voting Neely out will keep your kids from being exposed to pot in Humboldt County, you are even more naive than most Bass supporters.

High Finance

November 2, 2010 at 9:15 am

Decline to State, 6.46am. I hope you were trying to make a joke.

Anon 7.02am. Normally you would be right but Bonnie has put on the dirtiest, nastiest campaign in recent local history. I fear it might have had some effect.

Anon 7.52am. You have fallen for the old trap. Of course an incumbent always knows more about the nuts & bolts of the job than a challenger does. But being a supervisor is not brain surgery. Bonnie is no smarter than Virginia. Bonnie pretends to be and she gets away with it because she has done the same job for TWENTY FOUR YEARS.

Virginia will pick up the job very fast. Bonnie knew no more than Virgina when Bonnie began as a clerk in the Supervisor’s office. The biggest difference between the two is that Bonnie has forgotten who she is supposed to represent. It is not the Dem party bigwigs or the homeless advocates or the non profit administrators. Virgina understands it is the people who live in the fourth district.

Anon 8.27am. So are the Gallegos people. I see he hired a direlict to hold a Gallegos sign in front of the courthouse.

Anonymous

November 2, 2010 at 9:32 am

“Virgina understands it is the people who live in the fourth district.”

So long as they have the same desires as Rob Arkley.

anonymous

November 2, 2010 at 9:35 am

HiFi, I did not ask your opinion of Neely’s smarts. I asked why you think Virginia has any. What’s your evidence that she is capable of “picking it up very fast?” because she was a waitress. No. Because she was mayor? Again, no smarts shown there. All I can see so far is that she didn’t think it was important enough to familiarize herself with issues she would be asked about (other than the Marina Center) apparently because she wasn’t smart enough to see that it mattered.

anonymous

November 2, 2010 at 9:39 am

Also, HiFino argument from me that an incumbent knows the nuts and bolts better than the newcomer. That’s not my point. Virginia should have given evidence by now that she will hit the ground running. But my opinion is that all she has done is show that she is behind the 8-ball because she hasn’t done any homework yet. Kinda like writing that term paper AFTER it’s due.

anonymous

November 2, 2010 at 9:45 am

At the risk of becoming a JL, 1 more post. I have no problem voting out incumbents if the alternative fits my voting criteria. All Virginia has shown me is that she isn’t the incumbent. I require much more of my candidates. What’s your criteria? How does Virginia fit the bill? How has she demonstrated that she is smart and informed?

High Finance

November 2, 2010 at 10:14 am

That is an amazing slam against all waitresses.
At least half the waitresses I know are smarter than the average poster here.

I think Virginia is every bit as smart as Bonnie because I know & have interacted with both of them for years.

anonymous

November 2, 2010 at 10:20 am

Well I still didn’t get a why. What examples can you give me from your interactions that she is smart, make connections, is a quick learner, can think for herself and not Matt or RA? Give me examples. Many voters have only seen what she doesn’t know and hasn’t learned other than talking points.
And the waitresses are smart comment…A debate for another time perhaps.

Virginia’s failure to understand that she did not receive the T-S endorsement supports the arguments that she is 1) unable to understand even the most simple issues, and 2) that her campaign has no qualms about misleading voters.

She is incompetent, easily confused, and unfit for the job of supervisor.

by the numbers

November 2, 2010 at 10:34 am

all the waitstaff i know are smarter than HiFi.
and calling the sign person a direlict is a bad usage and spelling of the word derelict. you moron

Fed Up with Bass

November 2, 2010 at 10:50 am

After having read Virginia’s “reasoning” about the Times-Standard “endorsement” process, I can only say that her excuse is disingenuous at best and an outright lie at worst! To think that the May T-S comment was an endorsement of her is wrong. I, and many others I am sure, did not think the T-S comment was an endorsement of either candidate at that point of the campaign. She has used the T-S as an endorsement on her campaign literature since then. Now, she claims that the T-S “communication on the editorial process was not clear.” Baloney! Anyone in politics or following politics KNOWS that endorsements happen for each election! Bass is either clueless or wants the voters to think we are we are stupid. Either way, I don’t think she is fit to be the 4th District Supervisor!

Goldie

November 2, 2010 at 10:58 am

HiFi will not answer any questions directly. Watch him dance.

tra

November 2, 2010 at 11:01 am

Some waitresses are smart, and some are not so smart. Of course the same goes for people competing in the fields of high finance and politics. It’s just that lack of smarts has much greater consequences when the lacker is dealing with larger sums of money and/or power.

High Finance

November 2, 2010 at 11:05 am

Am I going to give specifics? No I won’t, no dancing here. You guys are having too much fun guessing who I am without giving you any clues.

Also I am not saying that Bonnie is dumb. She was a secretary & Virginia managed her family’s restaurant. Bonnie had no political experience when she first ran for Supervisor and Virginia has her years as Mayor.

And according to today’s Times Standard, the insert had run multiple times before & the Times Standard people had also missed the one incorrect line. In fact, so did all of you here (including Heraldo), just like Virginia’s advertising people did.

That would make all of you incompetant as well?

anonymous

November 2, 2010 at 11:13 am

I am not asking for anything that would give you away HiFi because, frankly, I could care less. But you must be having trouble thinking of something Virginia has done publicly to show she is up to the intellectual challenge. Like some particular occasion as mayor, or a debate, or an interview.

tra

November 2, 2010 at 11:22 am

“That would make all of you incompetant as well?”

Bass is running for office, and I am not. Bass is responsible for making sure her campaign doesn’t disseminate false information. Are you saying that the rest of us have just as strong an obligation to make sure Bass’s campaign materials don’t include falsehoods as Bass does? What a topsey-turvey world you live in HiFi!

tra

November 2, 2010 at 11:33 am

I just don’t understand how Bass or her staff read the T-S’s NON-endorsement in the primary, which said “we see this race coming down to a choice between Bass and Neely, but were unable to come to an agreement on one over the other,” and somehow looked around at each other and said “great, we got the Times-Standard’s endorsement, let’s put it on the web and in our advertising.” Really, how does that happen?

Anonymous

November 2, 2010 at 12:33 pm

I noticed that the T-S currently has the Bass/Neely split endorsement from last June on their homepage

Possibly adding to the confusion?

Plain Jane

November 2, 2010 at 12:37 pm

Who would interpret an old NON endorsement of either candidate an endorsement? If Bass is this easily confused, she will be a disaster on the BOS.

How the Bass camp could possibly interpret that as an endorsement deserving top billing on her website and circulars is incomprehensible. I doubt it was an accident.

anon

November 2, 2010 at 12:43 pm

And notice HiFi hasn’t rushed to defend his assessment of her intelligence with any evidence

High Finance

November 3, 2010 at 1:01 am

56 to 43

Apparently most people agreed with me & said pppffffttt to you anon.

Even after Bonnie spent $160,000 dollars on advertising.

Anonymous

November 3, 2010 at 1:50 am

Even after Mathew Owen/VB got the rich developer crowd to throw hundreds of thousands of $ at supporting Bass/Brady/Newman/Cleary, they still could barely win. All that propaganda…good thing Arkely doesn’t mind throwing money at his problems.

Oh right, the Marina Center isn’t a problem and he spent over $250,000 to paper over how it does nothing to move this project forward out of the goodness of his heart. He just supported (and urged his Gang of 30 rich developer friends) to the tune of WELL over a quarter of a million dollars, to put their pretty but frighteningly STUPID puppes]ts in place.

Record everything they say and do. Starting with tonight’s lies (Jager and Brady), followed by the tape of the drunken idiot who just beat the sober and informed candidate.

Anonymous

November 3, 2010 at 1:58 am

No, hifi, most people are too damn busy watching their middle-class lives slip away due to R policies of the 2000-2008 years to volunteer.

Benefit to the Rich: they can afford to pay people to obfuscate the truth.

You, HF, are probably both stupid and benefiting beyond reason by other people’s mistakes, mistakes of the banks (how will you fix those mistakes???), and not care when our country continues further down the ditch/gully Bush and his ilk drove us into? You must be single and unloved, for there is no other reason for you to be so hostile, depressed, and useless.

High Finance

November 3, 2010 at 8:36 am

LOL, you posted at 1.58 in the morning and with such bitter venom & you call ME hostile?????

You funny!

"HENCHMAN OF JUSTICE"

November 3, 2010 at 8:43 am

Anonymous says:
November 3, 2010 at 1:58 am
No, hifi, most people are too damn busy watching their middle-class lives slip away due to R policies of the 2000-2008 years to volunteer.

Benefit to the Rich: they can afford to pay people to obfuscate the truth.

You, HF, are probably both stupid and benefiting beyond reason by other people’s mistakes, mistakes of the banks (how will you fix those mistakes???), and not care when our country continues further down the ditch/gully Bush and his ilk drove us into? You must be single and unloved, for there is no other reason for you to be so hostile, depressed, and useless.

Response: the above poster’s quote is stuck on stupid with regard to this section….”Bush and his ilk drove us into”….

Stuck on stupid won’t admit non-Bush presidents, congress, etc…. drove the country into the ditch S WELL TOO!

This election cycle as I predicted and seered would be an election of hypocrisy – it has been confirmed.

JL

Auntie Arkley

November 3, 2010 at 10:31 am

Victory through deception; the Republican trick is played out again. These right-wingers are just total asshole scumbags. They suck.

High Finance

November 3, 2010 at 1:42 pm

Auntie Arkley, we should set you up on a date with Chumbolley.

You two sound like kindred spirits.

Anonymous

November 10, 2010 at 5:58 pm

A Republican lying? Never!

Virginia Bass doesn’t even admit she’s a Republican anymore. If Rob Arkley’s beloved Republican Party is so popular, then why did Virginia Bass lie about her politicial party affiliation?

Everyone knows Virginia is still a Republican at heart, even if she changed her registration as an election ploy.

Anonymous

November 10, 2010 at 6:27 pm

I like being independent. Both parties when at their extreme, are complete crazies. Virginia changed her affiliation as it represented her ideals more than her previous affiliation.